{"id":6222,"date":"2014-07-31T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/31\/dysfunction-reigns-in-u-s-house\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:53:04","slug":"dysfunction-reigns-in-u-s-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6222","title":{"rendered":"Dysfunction reigns in U.S. House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>How much more chaotic can it get in the People&#8217;s House?<\/p>\n<p>Probably a lot more than what we&#8217;re witnessing, but we we&#8217;re getting now is a sideshow worthy of a circus barker.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/31\/politics\/congress-immigration\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives canceled a planned vote on a border security\/immigration bill after leaders failed to get enough support among rank-and-file members to support it. It would cost about $659 million, far less than the $3.7 billion President Obama requested when the child refugee crisis erupted on the nation&#8217;s southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Senate is wondering what to do with a larger bill.<\/p>\n<p>What happens now? Well, Congress is about to take a five-week summer recess, which means that, all of a sudden, the border crisis isn&#8217;t quite as &#8220;urgent&#8221; as House leadership proclaimed it to be.<\/p>\n<p>As I recall, they were yammering at the White House to do something about it. The president responded with his emergency spending request, but the persistent critics said, &#8220;Not so fast, Mr. President. We aren&#8217;t going to write a blank check here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now the House has come apart at the seams yet again over a possible solution proposed by that guy who lives down the street in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>This is effective governance? I think not.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much more chaotic can it get in the People&#8217;s House? Probably a lot more than what we&#8217;re witnessing, but we we&#8217;re getting now is a sideshow worthy of a circus barker. http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/31\/politics\/congress-immigration\/index.html The House of Representatives canceled a planned vote on a border security\/immigration bill after leaders failed to get enough support among rank-and-file &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dysfunction reigns in U.S. House<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[540,707,905,2179,2245,5246],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-border-crisis","tag-central-america","tag-house-gop","tag-immigration","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}